let me go back to ken vogel.vestigative demands, we've got to get this out, we've got to get this out, finding the unamericans, the anti-american attitudes in the congress, we can't established this president getting that kind of perk, if he ever did. >> yeah. what she's found is there is a constituency for this stuff, within the fever swamps of the internet, it's at cpac, and there is the -- you know, it kind of tests the bounds of how far you can go with this constituency. she was riding high in the polls of the gop presidential primary at one point in 2012. she's raising a ton of money online. there is a limit to it and we saw it because she dropped out of the race after placing poorly in iowa. she barely won her re-election in a heavily republican district. she won by 4,300 votes and the challenger is thinking about running again. we saw a calculated decision by her to pull back and to be a lower profile and play less to this constituency but it's almost like she can't help herself and you go her the mike and

ken vogel, the chief investigative reporter for politico. apehart, opinion writer for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor. welcome, gentlemen. ken, i'm going to start with you. reince priebus is just having a tough month. you heard jon stewart and coburn, you know, slamming the autopsy. as did national review. so my question is, is it reince or does he just have an impossible job here? >> yeah. i'd go with the latter. it's really difficult. you've got so many competing constituencies. and he's trying to sort of hold it all together and recommend ways to change it. well, the inability to sort of come together on mutually agreed upon tactical changes and philosophical course correction is what kind of got them in this position in the first place. and i think if he is too heavy handed or the rnc is too heavy handed in trying to change either the tactics or the positions on -- which i think we're probably going to be headed for. >> oh, yeah. on that point, in the autopsy priebus mentioned out reach to gay voters at least four times. but t

ken vogel is a reporter for politico.you see him going careerwise, not that he needs to earn a paycheck. >> two things, not that he needs to earn a paycheck and not that he's going to be president. so careerwise, i don't mean this to sound mean, but kind of nowhere. i think the question is can he turn himself into some kind of elder statesman of the republican party? a statesman without actually ever having been head of state. he's got a hard -- like al gore, right, before him and others who have never gotten quite to the top. it's a very delicate thing, and this is a hard loss for everybody to recover from. >> he's a relatively young guy, and yet i buy that assessment of him in saying it's over for him. why is it over for him? >> he personifies some of the things that republicans have identified as their greatest weaknesses and the things that they're trying to move away from in this current rebranding. the inability to appeal to hispanics. the inability to appeal to women. this idea that republicans are the party of the

let's bring in david serota, and politico chief investigative reporter ken vogel. gentlemen, good morning. >> hey, chris. >> good morning. >> this is a bit of a departure for the president. he has urged to get more personal. next work he is making a rare visit to capitol hill, going to meet separately with the caucuses. will we look back potential six months from now and say it was a turning point in easing gridlock in washington? >> i don't know if the president's outreach will be the turning point. in other words, i don't know if that's what's going to change the equation here. i do think your point about fatigue is a real one. i think that probably these senators, lawmakers are going home hearing from the constituents, bakley asking, what are you doing? what's happening there? i think it can only help that the president is doing this, but i'm not sure that that's what moves senators ease votes on questions as big as they're facing now. >> let me go over what nbc news is reporting went on. apparently the president talked for a couple minutes, each senator had a c

. >> angela rye and ken vogel, welcome to you both.n't even declared herself a account but the very idea that ashley judd may challenge mitch mcconnell has led to what feels like another round of gender politics. do you think mcconnell supporters would treat, say, george clooney or daniel craig this way if they ran? >> well, martin, what we know for sure is that there's always been some separation when it comes to gender and politics. gender and the workplace. we're seeing this play out across the board. you know, with the president's first year we saw the lilly ledbetter act. there are all of these inequalities that exist, and i think it's up to us more progressive people and like-minded folks to really kind of push the buck here. ashley judd is a brilliant woman who happens to have some interest in the political process and has expressed that with or without this senate seat. so i think we need to see this play out, but they're definitely applying a lot of pressure, some of which is not fair, particularly when you look at what just h

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